Mark Twain Men Quotations [Page 4]

The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us who will stoop to do things for a million dollars that they ought not to be willing to do for less than 2 millions.

No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.

Franklin said once in one of his inspired flights of malignity-- Early to bed and early to rise Make a man healthy and wealth and wise. As if it were any object to a boy to be healthy and wealthy and wise on such terms.

If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I have noticed that when a man is right down cheerful, he is seldom unhappy for the time being. Such is the nature of man.

Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of thing, any way you take him; a kind of British Museum of infirmities and inferiorities. He is always undergoing repairs. A machine that was as unreliable as he is would have no market.

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.

All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.

Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.

No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.

Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.

It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.